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ARRANGEMENTS & TICKET DETAILS - CROKE PARK – 23/7/05


Match Times
S.H.C – Relegation Section – Offaly v Antrim 2.15 pm
Ulster S.F.C. Final - Replay 4.30 pm

Admission Charges
Stands €25.00

Student & Senior CitizenTickets
•Cusack & Canal Stands only
•All students and senior citizens must purchase a full price ticket and on the day of the game claim a refund at Block D Cusack Stand (prior to game) with appropriate, current and valid I.D.
•No concessions for Hogan Stand or Terrace

Ticket Sales
Clubs and General Sale:
O’Connor Park, Thursday 21/7/05 from 6.00 – 7.00 pm

I know we should be good enough to beat Antrim anywhere, though even great Offaly teams struggled in the past, but how is it right that Offaly should have to play this game before an Ulster championship final ?

If the game is close going into the last 15 mins surely the all Ulster crowd would be roaring on Antrim. No ?

the bare biffo wrote:If the game is close going into the last 15 mins surely the all Ulster crowd would be roaring on Antrim. No ?

Hopefully we'll be well out of sight by then.
Remember 1989 vs Antrim and 2000 vs Derry.
Both days the Galway and Tipp fans really got behind the opposition, when they arrived into the ground to find Offaly in trouble.

I particularly remember the Tipp fans having a right sneer at us as we struggled to beat Derry. I had a quiet chuckle to myself when Galway sent them packing.

Of course it's not right.

However our county board has a long standing track record of not necessarily fighting our corner too well in these matters, and hence we end up with farces like games against Clare in "neutral" Limerick, a home game against Clare in Portlaoise when Birr would have easily taken the crowd, 4 backdoor football matches - and three exits - six days after losing in Leinster.......

I think there might be a perception that to raise the issue is perceived as unmanly, or giving out, or not giving the lessers a chance. Truth is that the idea of relegation semis is a farce, and it should be just a straight Dublin Antrim final. Laois are playing Dublin in Carlow - a quarter of the town is inside the Laois border. By that logic this game should be in Kilbeggan.

It's a good challenge for the offaly team in this one. Offaly are a better side than Antrim, but they'll be up against a 15th man. in all fairness if offaly don't beat antrim and whinge about the non-neutral crowd after they would deserve to go down

Suppose Offaly win this and Antrim go on to lose the actual relegation game but win next years Ulster championship.

Will they still be barred from the Liam McCarthy ?

I'm not sure how, but the rule is that if any team wins the Ulster Championship and do not have prior eligibility to enter the race for Liam McCarthy, they will be "accomodated". As I said, no idea how though.

Down and Derry both said this year though that if they won they were going to play in the Christy Ring Cup anyway.

Turk :

Offaly are a better side than Antrim, but they'll be up against a 15th man.

Aren't we always up against a 15th man? Or do you mean a 16th man with the crowd??

Ya big eejit

Ron wrote:ARRANGEMENTS & TICKET DETAILS - CROKE PARK – 23/7/05


Match Times
S.H.C – Relegation Section – Offaly v Antrim 2.15 pm
Ulster S.F.C. Final - Replay 4.30 pm

Admission Charges
Stands €25.00

Student & Senior CitizenTickets
•Cusack & Canal Stands only
•All students and senior citizens must purchase a full price ticket and on the day of the game claim a refund at Block D Cusack Stand (prior to game) with appropriate, current and valid I.D.
•No concessions for Hogan Stand or Terrace

Ticket Sales
Clubs and General Sale:
O’Connor Park, Thursday 21/7/05 from 6.00 – 7.00 pm

I take it there's only stand tickets available?

azoffaly wrote:Turk :

Offaly are a better side than Antrim, but they'll be up against a 15th man.

Aren't we always up against a 15th man? Or do you mean a 16th man with the crowd??

Ya big eejit

Down with pedants!!

Is anyone going to this?

I'm not. I'm going to listen to it on the wireless

turk wrote:Is anyone going to this?

I'm not. I'm going to listen to it on the wireless

I'll be there. Section 307 in the Lower Cusack.
Thanks to Bogman for queueing for the tickas!
I might bring the transistor radio.

Bord na Mona man wrote:

turk wrote:Is anyone going to this?

I'm not. I'm going to listen to it on the wireless

I'll be there. Section 307 in the Lower Cusack.
Thanks to Bogman for queueing for the tickas!
I might bring the transistor radio.

Good man!!

I'm going. I don't want to but I'm going. I don't enjoy going to matches anymore. I'm sh1ttin myself that we lose. I don't want to be part of a relegation dogfight. Not after what happened against Dublin. We should DESTROY these boys. No mercy from the off.

Wey hey. Guess this means we're facing Kilkenny again next year.

Seriously though, what a relief. Although it does beg the question "as long as this system is in use are we going to face relegation play-off's every year?" It seems to me the only way to avoid this is for KK and WX to be drawn together in Leinster, and we beat LS or D or both to qualify for the quarter final, and another record trouncing from KK.